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Last Updated: September 26, 2019 - 4:12am

BLOOMSBURG — A prank caller who claimed to have murdered his wife sent police here hurrying to surround an apartment with long guns and medical equipment late Tuesday night.

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Last Updated: September 24, 2019 - 4:11pm

DANVILLE — After nearly five years of penny-pinching and uncertainty, the fate of the Montour Preserve finally seems secure, as county commissioners voted on a tax hike to permanently...

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Last Updated: September 19, 2019 - 6:10pm

GREENWOOD TWP. — The former pastor of New Testament Assembly of God Church stole more than $250,000 in church funds, telling police he used the money to help others and pay for his...

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Last Updated: September 16, 2019 - 5:16pm

DANVILLE — A Danville woman with a long history of thievery has admitted she conned $185,000 from her boyfriend’s grandfather over a two-year period.

Heather Sharkuski, 35,...

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Last Updated: September 13, 2019 - 4:32pm

FISHING CREEK TWP. — A 34-year-old man was flown to the hospital after a high-speed crash along State Route 487 Friday morning.

Leevern Oliver, Millville, was conscious following...

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Last Updated: September 12, 2019 - 4:21pm

SCOTT TWP. — Mechanic George Eddy stood inside Roberts Automotive Thursday afternoon and watched as an out-of-control car came racing toward the very window he was looking out of.

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Last Updated: September 10, 2019 - 2:38pm

SCOTT TWP. — Traffic between the Lime Ridge and Lightstreet exits on Interstate 80 is backed up at this hour, PennDOT says.

Motorists traveling on Interstate 80 westbound are...

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Last Updated: September 9, 2019 - 4:26pm

DANVILLE — Danville head football coach Jim Keiser resigned from his position Monday after spending the past two weeks suspended from the sidelines by the school, he said.

Keiser...

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Last Updated: September 6, 2019 - 4:54pm

BLOOMSBURG — One of the teen vandals who went on a spree through the Bloomsburg Fairground in January pleaded guilty Friday, and will get a chance to avoid a felony conviction on his...

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Last Updated: September 3, 2019 - 5:53pm

MILLVILLE — A fire that ravaged the back of a home here Monday night left fire crews trying to quell smoldering sections for nearly an hour.

The fire at 468 S. State St. started...

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Last Updated: August 30, 2019 - 5:19am

DANVILLE — Motorists traveling on Interstate 80 westbound are advised there are delays due to a highway restoration project on I-80 in Liberty and Valley townships, Montour County,...

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Last Updated: August 29, 2019 - 11:51am

BLOOMSBURG — Smoke from ongoing construction work on a new learning center prompted a brief evacuation of Bloomsburg Area high and middle schools on Thursday morning.

Welders...

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Last Updated: August 28, 2019 - 4:53pm

DANVILLE — Geisinger employees who become parents will now be able to take up to two weeks off with pay to devote time to their new family member.

The health system announced its...

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Last Updated: August 28, 2019 - 3:08pm

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania prison officials are planning to close another prison, as the inmate population continues to decline and prison costs rise.

A state lawmaker,...

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